Larry Masinter writes:
> I re-read my mail from yesterday, and realized that I never defined
> 'cache-busting'. Here's an attempt:
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> cache busting:
> any of a variety of techniques employed by origin servers to
> prevent an intermediate cache from supplying the same data twice (to
> the same or different users) merely for the purpose of gathering
> accurate 'hit' data.
>
> Cache-busting reduces the value of the techniques the HTTP working
> group is developing to make caching in the Internet more effective,
> which might in turn result in greater efficiency of the network and
> more responsive Internet access, especially across saturated
> trans-ocean internet links.
>
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> Larry
>
>
For the etymologists among us, does anyone know where this term originated?
--Shel